Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] office by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mar was a 40-year-old former Secretary of State for Scotland who , dropped from office by George I , had turned Jacobite , making his house in London a centre of the anti-Hanoverian conspiracy before , in August 1715 , sailing from London on a collier to Newcastle and thence to Elie in Fife . |
| 2 | Queen Anne 's former chief minister , Henry St John , Viscount Bolingbroke , who had been ousted from office by a Whig on George I 's accession , arrived in Paris that spring , to be followed in August by another influential figure , James Butler , Duke of Ormonde , who had succeeded Marlborough as Captain-General and had contemplated leading a military rebellion against the new king . |
| 3 | Bosch , who had moderated his left-wing image to present himself as the defender of the small and medium businessman in the face of state bureaucracy and corruption , still retained the appeal of the reformer who had been ousted from office by the military in 1963 and by the invasion of US troops in 1965 . |
| 4 | The new Health Secretary is married to fellow MP Peter Bottomley , who was sacked from office by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 5 | The Chief Constable of Brighton was dismissed from office by the Brighton Watch Committee without an adequate hearing . |
| 6 | Together with Jacob Nena , 49 , of Kosrae , who was elected Vice-President , Olter was sworn into office by Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward King in a brief ceremony immediately after the election . |
| 7 | Of the previous four presidents one , Johnson , had been effectively driven from office by the failure of his Vietnam policy ; one , Nixon , had resigned in disgrace and neither Ford nor Carter had been able to cope with the limits on presidential power . |
| 8 | Individual ministers were censured and driven from office by the House , examples being Russell in 1855 and Ellenborough in 1858 . |
| 9 | Although at first sight the Democratic losses in the House appeared to indicate the absence of a presidential " coat-tail " effect — the term used when legislative candidates were swept into office by the momentum of their party 's victorious presidential nominee — this was misleading , as a close comparison between 1992 and past elections was made difficult by considerable changes in the electoral map . |
| 10 | The Socialist French Prime Minister , Edith Cresson , whose government is supported in office by one of the few unreformed Communist parties in Europe , is known for her comments about ‘ little yellow men ’ from Japan . |
| 11 | The Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible to the Assembly and are appointed to office by the Governor General upon its recommendation . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible to Parliament and are appointed to office by the Governor-General acting upon its advice . |
| 13 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament ( consisting of a House of Assembly which is popularly elected every five years , and an appointed Senate ) , to which the Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible and upon whose advice they are appointed to office by the Governor General . |
| 14 | The Prime Minister ( currently John Compton ) and Cabinet are responsible to Parliament and are appointed to office by the Governor General acting upon its advice . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister ( currently James F. Mitchell ) and Cabinet are responsible to the Assembly and are appointed to office by the Governor General acting upon its advice . |
| 16 | Executive power is exercised by a Prime Minister ( currently Rabbie Namaliu ) and a National Executive Council ( Cabinet ) who are responsible to Parliament and are appointed to office by the Governor General acting upon its advice . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible to Parliament and are appointed to office by the Governor-General acting upon its advice . |
| 18 | The Prime Minister and Cabinet are appointed to office by the Governor-General on the advice of Parliament , to which they are responsible . |
| 19 | The Prime Minister and Cabinet are appointed to office by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Assembly . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible to the Assembly and are appointed to office by the Governor-General acting upon its advice . |
| 21 | It was not unknown in Nigeria for emirs to be removed from office by the British , but only when they committed crimes which brought discredit upon the administration , never for mere recalcitrance . |
| 22 | The Chancellor was to be elected by a majority of the Bundestag to act as the head of the executive , and could only be removed from office by a ‘ constructive vote of no confidence ’ : that is , if the Bundestag voted a Chancellor out , they also had to put forward an alternative to replace him . |
| 23 | He is not a civil servant but is a direct Crown appointee who can only be removed from office by an address from both Houses of Parliament . |
| 24 | Circuit judges and Recorders , however , may be removed from office by the Lord Chancellor on the ground of incapacity or misbehaviour . |
| 25 | Thus administrative receivers must be qualified to act as insolvency practitioners and can only be removed from office by the court . |
| 26 | The President might only be removed from office by the Congress of People 's Deputies in the event of his violating the Constitution or the law . |
| 27 | ( 5 ) if he is removed from office by a resolution duly passed under Section 303 of the Act ; |
| 28 | ( 5 ) if he is removed from office by a resolution duly passed under Section 303 of the Act ; |
| 29 | But at that and the second Westminster election , he had been put in office by the DUP . |
| 30 | Law was very angry when Churchill was put in office by Lloyd George in 1917 , and the National Union resolved that it was " an insult to the Army and Navy and an injury to the Country " . |